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

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

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

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.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

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

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

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

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.