Resignation is a daily suicide.

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.

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won't get any here either.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.