You are a fool in four letters, my son.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

All progress is experimental.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th.