If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.