Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection t...

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you have...

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.

The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The number-one fear in life is public speaking and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

Time is a river without banks.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.