There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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.

No one blames her.""That never matters, " said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

How would you like to make money in real estate?

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.