A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.