Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are..

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had..

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness..

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time..

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid..

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone..

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides..

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike..

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them..

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously..

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners..

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene..

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream..

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable..

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice..

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one..

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did..

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil..

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most..

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead..