If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.