Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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.

He felt like home.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.