In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.