The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

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.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond

Sometimes our loved one doesn't understand that you need them, it hurts but when they says they know you very well it hurts even more as you know its not true.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Vladimir Putin, and I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.

I just go with what excites me.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.