Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.