Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.