A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

We are all citizens of history.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.