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.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

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