A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Author: Andre Maurois

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence, and more than any other one thing, a smile reassures them.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.