“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had”

“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”

“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.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”