"Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty."

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half"

"Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do."

"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... The people who give you their food give you their heart."

"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics."

"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."

"Any colour - so long as it's black."

"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."

"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."

"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case."

"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."