What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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.

When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.