My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

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.

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life.

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.

Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!