The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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.

That is what love does, it upstages fear.

Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am.

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?