Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.