The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames