No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

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.

Time is the skin of existence.

Visionless people are prone to harm and trouble, because they always follow any path and end anyhow.

I think when you read a book you leave reality behind and enter your mind, where there is imagination that ignites you and that is when you truly are stuck in a good book...

I want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon our flames of desire...

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.