The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.