People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.