During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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.

There are some people who walk into your life and shed a new light in your entire being. Be grateful to such people.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.

I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.