For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.

I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

People aren't universally heroic.

Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

God's time never stops.