Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

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.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

What you think about you bring about.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

I'm 37, I'm pretty fit and feel I have another eight years left - which means there's 32 Majors still to go at.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.