Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

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!]

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

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.