It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

A good time for laughing is when you can.