And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Reading brings us unknown friends

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.