Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.