Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

There can be no great love without exclusivity.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

For every excuse that you've ever had or came up with of why you can't or couldn't, there's someone who's had that same excuse or even worse, but found a way and did

Get down, ' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.