Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.