Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
