Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

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

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.

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

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.