If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.

The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.