When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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.

Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.

Because women never say what they think.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.