A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

If Aphrodite had an avatar on earth, it was her. It was her- the Holy Grail men keep searching all through their lives!

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.