The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

If someone angers you, they control you.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.