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

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.