Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way read more

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without read more

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly read more

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.