The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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 asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.

Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.