We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

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.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.