A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.
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