Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.