In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.