don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.