The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.