A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.