Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.