"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."

"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."

"Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."

"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."

"There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life."

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself."

"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."

"We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all."

"Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."