It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.

It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other read more

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit read more

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.

Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.