By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

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

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.