Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

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

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

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.