Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

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.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.