Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.