Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak 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.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

God's way is still the best way.