Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
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