When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst – if only because he’s paying him so much money. But he can’t – because if the analyst really cared, he’d be doing it for nothing.
Tragedy isn’t getting something, or failing to get it; it’s losing something you already have.
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.
There’s no way to repay a mother’s love, or lack of it.
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don’t; if you don’t know what he expects, what are you doing married?
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.