Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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.

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely.

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.