He who does not move with the times is a dead man

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Prayer is the best way to hug those who are far away.

The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Let me say that it is not a question of us getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.