The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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.

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for my need to create a more beautiful world around me.

Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.