maturity ... is letting things happen.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.