Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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.

Only God can make the common sacred.

Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.