I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

Women are the guardians of morality.

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.