We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.