There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

I have no history but the length of my bones.

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter they're considered crazy people or something.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

There's no sin but stupidity.