The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.