Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

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 only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

The choices you make in life creates your destiny.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.