People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.