In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.