Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.