Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.
youth is a marvelous garment
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.