It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

Every time you smoke a cigarette, God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards

Violence is not funny.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.