Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

So much of life isn’t about having the right answer it’s about knowing the right question.

Catch the good point and appreciate it.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid, " She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

The gods favor the bold.