"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

"Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships."