When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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.

In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?