God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.