When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?