Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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.

Duty over fear.

If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone.

And darkness will rule.

The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.