We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

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.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want. You will attract the divine force to bring it into existence.

How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.