Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

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.

No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

What should I be but just what I am?

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.