A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful organizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

There is a language for every heart, you just need to master one.

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.