Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.