Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.