It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

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.

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.