The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that … - Sydney J. Harris

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.

Ordinary people, caught in the trap of their routine lives, are not villains any more than eccentrics or rebels are villains. Essentially, both kinds of people are struggling to be good, through a maze of conflicts and a haze of shadows.