People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?