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.

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.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

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

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.