I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.