if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.