In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

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.

And a moment that ought to have lasted for everHas come and gone before I knew.

Intuition is truth.

Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

Let me tell you that I love the United States.