Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

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.

If you can’t move a mountain by faith, move it by carrying away stone by stone.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

If somebody praises you; change the topic!

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.