Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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.

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.