He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.