Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have left.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

You don't mow another man's lawn!

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.