My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.