one should be afraid of life, not of death.

Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.