There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.