The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings

A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

A closed mouth doesn't get fed.

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes.

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.