Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

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.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Mingle often with good people to keep your soul nourished.

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.