The only people who never fail are those who never try

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.