The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...

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.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.

Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

If you want to change your hair colour or your nail colour or things like that its fine, but you have to realize the dangers and repercussions of surgery.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.