If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

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.

Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

The way you see yourself and others will significantly impact your ability to give your time, treasure or talents.

Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.