The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

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.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

The baby is a different person

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I'm fairly fit.

Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.

It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!