The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

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 the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

I have arranged my little life.

In God's name let us go on bravely.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.