Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.