Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

Eat what you like, but dress for other people.

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.