Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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.

love is not a race 1st 2nd 3rd....Love Is Only LoVE, It come From Inside and Love Is Being In us!!!!

Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

I like playing dark, broody types.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?