He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school year is made of decades not of weeks and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

Love is what carries you for it is always there even in the dark or most in the dark but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Friends are like rainbows always there to cheer you up after a storm.

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot but many people forget that.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

I would be the worst biologist in the world!

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

I'll be the first one to tell you I burn coal... That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.