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

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

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

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.