"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more

"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity."

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

"No nice men are good at getting taxis."

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.