Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

If I knew then what I know now, I would still be dreaming BIG today.

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.