Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)

Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.