One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.