Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

Never, never, never give in!

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom-freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

... the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.