What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.