Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.

I've never been on a fad diet.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.