We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
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