All romances end at marriage.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

Marriage is a school of learning.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.