Love Writer Man American essayist How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man. - Charles Dudley Warner
Power Being Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. - Charles Dudley Warner
Wife Mind World There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. - Charles Dudley Warner
Excellence Value The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner
Conversation Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. - Charles Dudley Warner
Weather Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. - Karen Allen
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. - Karen Armstrong