The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense