Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.
The plague of government is senile delinquency.