When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail