When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it was a 2 by 4.--T-SHIRT

I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative.

I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.