Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Control your thoughts and everything will be under your control.

Every tear is a memory of you.

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.