Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.

If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.