my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

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!]

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

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

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

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