There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.