Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
Graham GreeneShe was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
Graham GreeneIn our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
Graham GreeneAn autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
Graham GreeneDespair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Graham Greene