We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.