Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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.

Life is too precious and short to dare to waste it on mediocre dreams.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Life is all about flexibility”.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.