It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
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