Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Oh, my beauty!Oh, my reflection of life!Oh, my unmet desires!I am longing for youtor now and forever!

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

When we stop to count our blessings rather than focusing on our predicament, our attitude will be able to help us cope with our situation more productively.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

I wash my hair after every shoot. If I'm not shooting I can normally do it every other day. I always follow my tailored haircare routine and stick to that, and I always get great results.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.