Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

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.

If you have to tell them you are, you're usually not. It usually speaks for itself.

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

Songs are more powerful than books.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

The love of life is the root of all good.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

I'm a mean beanbag tosser.