“I'm not really silly enough to think that chocolate solves anything. But it calms me. It's a soothing assurance, that this hectic life I have worked myself into is also full of wonderful surprises and unexpected sweetness. It reminds me that a hefty percentage of my "problems" don't really need to be solved at all, just outlasted.”
“Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.”
“I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.”
“I don't think any man could solve the world's problems overnight, myself included. You'd better give me at least two days.”
“But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?'I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we?”
“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”