Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

I am blessed and honored with the opportunity I have to come play for the San Diego Chargers now.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].