No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

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 trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Why is it that we feel bad when “all” we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!