Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.