Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

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.

See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.