Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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.

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

I try to stay under the radar.

Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.

You feel what you're focused on.