Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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.

Hope is the magic of life, it keeps us alive.

Some love is so powerful after all, that it must always include sadness, because encrypted within it is the knowledge that someday it will come to an end.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.