Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.