Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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.

Let your whisper shake the ground

Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.

The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

You learn who your friends are when you find out who will lie for you.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.