"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."

"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."

"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"

"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."

"There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life."

"His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands, between innumerable poles."

"All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside."

"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt."

"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."