The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.