True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
You get so much more out of life by being supportive and having loving friends who are there for you. Good friendships can make your heart light; it can make you feel giddy; it can make you feel like when you fall in love.
It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.
No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?