My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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.

No escape--like life itself.

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.