Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

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.

If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will beautify yourself and your world.

It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.