The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

Christmas is the spirit of love, joy and peace.

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.