Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

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.

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.