What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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.

My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.

Do life soaring

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

To lovers and dreamers and anyone who hasn’t truly experienced either.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.