A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.