Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.