The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
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.