When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

A leader should not be a dictator.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.