if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.