The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

Even boredom has its crises.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.