Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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.

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.