Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

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.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.