I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison, the roses he gave me all twisted black

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

You control your own wins and losses.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.