Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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.

I have a headache. If only I had a crown to put on!

Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.