It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our 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.

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.

I love the studio. It's my place to escape and to create and to try anything.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.