Women are women and can't help themselves.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8.

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

Poet's food is love and fame.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.