A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

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.

Savez-vous que c'est à cause de cette recherche de ce que j'appellerais les compensations, cette rechercher d'un bonheur malgré tout, que naissent les manies et, souvent, les déséquilibres.

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

I think the chair's job is to be fair and I think the job of all of the vice chairs is to make sure that happens. And we have really robust conversations about what balance is, and it's not easy.

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.