I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.