Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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 reason can make as much damage as passion.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.