The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

Sometimes words are not enough.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.

I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.