the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.