Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.