God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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.

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.