It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.