Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
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.
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
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.
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
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.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.