Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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.

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.

Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.