The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

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 gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.

School is a pile of crap. School has always been a pile of crap – he had just never bothered to think about it until today.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

I think I was born in Elizabethan times.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.