If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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.

Memories fall like snowflakes upon my dreams. The snowflakes toss and tumble, each different and yet the same.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.