Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

I love driving my car on any highway.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,” I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke)

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?