<p>The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.</p>

<p>The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.</p>

<p>We didn't start the fire. It was always burning$$$ since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No we didn't light it. But we tried to fight it.</p>

<p>Everybody strains after happiness$$$ and the result is that nobody's happy.</p>

<p>A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary$$$ he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.</p>

<p>We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.</p>

<p>To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?</p>

<p>You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man$$$ you will seek in vain for the child you were.</p>

<p>There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.</p>

<p>Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.</p>