Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

We're planning on being married for a long, long time.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I'm a father eight and I'm married as well - in real life.

Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.