True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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 person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.