Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.

My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.