When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.