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

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

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.

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

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.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.