“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.”

Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

That’s why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

Decide that you want it more than you’re afraid of it.

Gray hair is gods graffiti.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn’t let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Was not In the men’s room, Julie.

It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that’s beautiful.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth who allow their kids to come back home.

I was’nt always black. There was this freckel that just grew and grew.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Integrity is not a bunch of values or ethics. Integrity is the coherence between how you are, how you think, and how you act.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.