There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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.

We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.