The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.

We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.

The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.