Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.