The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned