When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Through strength I found loveIn time I found myself in happiness with you

Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.

Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact intoconsideration.

I would rather walk alone in light than with many in the darkness.

Nothing nice happens to murdered women.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

We are the Love, loving.