Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

You are only susceptible to break easily due to occasionally bends if you are inflexible

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

If the value of human was given by others, so there is no valuable person in this world.

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.