Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.