I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

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 do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.