People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.