The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

I didn't ask to be born!""No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!

I am not a photographer, I am a canon owner !!!

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

Love and honesty don't mix.

I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.