Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

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.

Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better.

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

The only place where we're going to be completely relieved of pain is in Heaven.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

You are who you choose to be.

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.