The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.