Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
maturity ... is letting things happen.
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.