Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those claiming to be an avatar-messiah or god. But if they're serious, then, I am who I am.

It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it

My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.

One can really love only once.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.