Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.