the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?