Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.