While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The world wants to be deceived.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that.

A leader leads by example not by force.

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.