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

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

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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