Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

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

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.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

Great men are not always wise.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.