Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.