Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

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.

The voice of the archangel is the trumpet call of God.

Own your own dreamsCornelius Crapp to Gerald Crapp

Believe yourself again and again to find yourself.

Only you can decide what you become.

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.

I don't have to talk. My record speaks for itself.

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future