Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Common sense is not so common.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Marriage is the death of hope.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Change alone is unchanging.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Love is an interesting thing.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.