A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.

And you came to Finland to build a station?""No I came here on vacation to visit a friend.""That's good, " the driver said. "Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

If we all just took a moment to be a little more thankful and kind to people, or smile at people, it could really change someone's day.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.