Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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.

Grief is always amplified in silence.

Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.