"Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying."

"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

"Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it."

"You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."

"Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women."

"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one."

"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want."

"If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear."

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness."

"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

"The basis for optimism is sheer terror."