The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.