Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

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.

Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

God is strongest when we are weakest.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

Anyway, we had a blast, and the movie [the Ghost Team] turned out really, really funny.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.