It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

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.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.

You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents.

To be conscientious. You must first be conscious.

Behold the day-break!I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face, I stir you with muscular paw-prods, I rouse you with toe-

The ego of a god, the wit of a goldfish.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.