If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.