I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.

The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.