There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

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.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.