Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. - Edith Wharton

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.