Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

You can only inspire others when your heart is ready to sing the song of love.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

Be interested rather than interesting

Go into the heart of love, and come from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.