“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never see...”

“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”

“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”

“It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?”

“God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.”

“Macho does not prove mucho.”

“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”