I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Never explain, never complain.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.