Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.

All beautiful women are murderers. You've probably heard it said before.

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.

Humor acts to relieve fear.

When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.