You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.