three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

I'm not Jesus, but I have very valuable information.

They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.