When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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.

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.

gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect

Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.