Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.