If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

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.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.