Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

When coming to the end of an interview: 'You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality'.

Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.