Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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.

Heartache is my constant companion, and we’re perfect for one another. Two co-dependent peas in a pod. My past and my future.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.