Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

We are born knowing death.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.