In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.