"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners."

"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts."

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

"Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning."

"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."

"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity."