Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

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.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?