Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.