Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman. That's why I feel women can attain enlightenment more easily than men.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.