I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.

Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.

There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.

Some people are chronically unhappy only because they do not have some of the things some people expect them to want.

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.