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

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.

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.

No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.