Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.