[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.