There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Love is only one of many passions.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Great loves too must be endured.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

A word after a word after a word is power.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.