An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

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.

There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go

...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.Love Professor - to Jennifer

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open