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

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

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

happy people have got something to give to the world.

Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

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