We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

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.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

You stand the risk of misfortunes, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.