Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

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.

Only the spirit nourishes the soul.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.