To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

There are those that hate and those that love, it all works out the same.

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.