Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The world wants to be deceived.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.

It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.