A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Faith and hope mean absolutely nothing where consistent action fails to exist.

Problems come few and far between in the life of a proactive person.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?

Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.