If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.