The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.