Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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.

Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

Yet still the time:- 'It's so nice to come home'.

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.