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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

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

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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

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

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

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

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

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

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

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

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

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

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

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

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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

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.

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

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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

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.

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.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

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

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.