If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.