My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.