Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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.

He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it.

Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul.

If the knock once and door remain lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.