To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The moment you're born you're done for.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.