Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.