When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

And verily a woman need know but one man well in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation attention perseverance and industry.

Who knows for what we live and struggle and die? Wise men write many books in words too hard to understand. But this the purpose of our lives the end of all our struggle is beyond all human wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.