A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more

"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity."

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

"No nice men are good at getting taxis."