A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A Controlled Mind Can Create All That It Words...!

Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the weapons of Knowledge and Discernment.

Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.