Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

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.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.