Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them.

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.