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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with...  
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.   Humor
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with...   Marriage
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price...  
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful ...  
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.  
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.  
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.  
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left ...  
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set...  
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.  
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another ...   Marriage
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two min...  
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly fra...   Friendship
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.  
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.   Change
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.  
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to...  
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.  
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.  
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out wheth...  
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.  
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while yo...  
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we...  
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.   Society
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.  
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one momen...  
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting...  
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count our...  
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few th...  
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our you...   Age
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain gree...  
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy...  
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.  
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to wan...  
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we h...