Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Sometimes both your mind and thoughts are paying the cost of your stupid heart.

Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.