"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn."

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opene…"

"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood."

"Dogs are wise. They get a lot more pleasure out of life than we do."

"Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do."