Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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.

Hold fast to the word of God.

It felt like fate. That if Gray Shadow and Caius could not find their way to each other, their bloodlines eventually did.

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.

Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll.