There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness

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

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

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

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

I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions