How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.