You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

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.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

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.

Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery

Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.

The shortest and the hardest journey to make is the inner one.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind