A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.