I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Life is not fair, get used to it

Learning from our mistakes is important to be able to make better choices in the future.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.