“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”

“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.”

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”

“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”

“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”

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

“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”

“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”

“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”

“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”

“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.”

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”

“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.”