You can have it all. Just not all at once.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.