Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

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.

Don't think for second you are not a badass warrior. That's precisely your problem, you don't realize how amazingly brilliant and super kickass you are. Your potential is only limited by your mind.

Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?

An empty street sucks your fullness

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

To toughen up, is to calm down.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.