Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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 wind plays its own music.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

I think when you get tired of something or someone annoys you, there's two things you can do. You can ignore it and keep going, or you can stand up and say stop.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.