Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.