When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.