You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

all success cloaks a surrender

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.