The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.