Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.