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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

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.