"Necessity has the face of a dog."

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."

"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."

"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."

"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."

"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."

"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."