Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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 wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.

...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.