A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

Life is the game that must be played

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.

When I finish a workout, I feel pretty sexy. Even though I'm sweaty and I don't smell like a rose, I feel strong. It does a lot for me mentally and physically.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.