To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Tact is good taste in action.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.