Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.