One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.