“It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.”

If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Time is the best killer.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.

To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I think happiness is love.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Happiness exists when you don’t know a thing.

There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans.

Self-loathing doesn’t keep me from being happy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t struggle.

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think.

You deserve to be a happy person you were born to be.