'Men and women, women and men. It will never work.'

'I have accepted fear as part of life - specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back.'

'Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.'

'Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.'

To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave …

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't; If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't. But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,…