First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.