You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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.

We become what we behold.

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.