“What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.”

“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”

“Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”

“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”