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.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

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