Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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.

Your secret sin vs your destiny you decide which one wins.

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

The aeroplane will never fly.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition