The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy.

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.