We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.

The same thought resonates.

Every major religion documents the fact that we ourselves have to take action to achieve whatever we desire. So why leave it on luck when your thoughts, beliefs and actions create your destiny?

I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?