There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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 same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

The future is built on the flow of new ideas.