Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

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.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.