1. “There’s no way to repay a mother’s love, or lack of it .”
2. “With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.”
3. “A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
4. “A perfect marriage is one in which “I’m sorry” is said just often enough”
5. “If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”
6. “The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”
7. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”
8. “Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”
9. “We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves n the hostile eyes of others.”
10. “Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
11. “Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.”
12. “Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
13. “It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.”
14. “Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.”
15. “Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite .”
16. “Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
17. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
18. “Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
19. “Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.”
20. “It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
21. “The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”
22. “A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
23. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
24. “The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
25. “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.”
26. “Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”
27. “Most of us rather risk catastrophe than read directions.”
28. “Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”
29. “The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.”
30. “What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.”
