The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.