When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

I wouldn't trust a man and woman who never had their fights.

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.