There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear