Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

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

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.