Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

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.

Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

Life is an empty dream.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."