Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

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.

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.