When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

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 wisdom of God is what we ought to seek.

To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.