A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say!

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Hey, I work one full hour a day!

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

Beware of losing what isn't in your head.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.