Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Only the soul knows its sorrow.

There is hope for the soul that sin

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

People always say you can't win if you don't play

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.