People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

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.

When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

To live sober is...to die countless times!

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.