Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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 morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities.

Why do you suppose I’m here?” I asked him. Angel. A thirteen-year-old departed gangbanger. “Just ’cause you’re supposed to be, I guess.

Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.