You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Never confuse movement with action.
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.