Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

There's always time for tea.

Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

The primary asset of any business is its organization.