With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.

The whole universe interest me.

Democrats don't want you to know what their tax plans are. They just don't want you to know.

I hardly wear any makeup.

The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.