The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that.

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.