To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.