We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

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.

Prayer is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to release every pain

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.