The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

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

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.