Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Grumbling is the death of love

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.