We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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.

If you follow, Practice and Live ‘Ownership’, you have arrived in Life!

You have to be free to fail in this world.

Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

I miss my wife's cooking - as often as I can.

People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.