"Women are tenacious, and all of them..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.”

“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”

“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”

“In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.”

“What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.”

“It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.”

“With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.”

“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”

“I have great respect for the past.”