Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"

"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity."

"The battle to keep up appearances unnecessarily, the mask -- whatever name you give creeping perfectionism -- robs us of our energies."

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

"No nice men are good at getting taxis."

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day."

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more

"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.