The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

One must dare to be happy.