Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

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.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.