Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

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.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&ampB pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

Space we can recover; time never.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Familiarity breeds complacency.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.