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.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.