No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

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.

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Mine is better than ours.

I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.