We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.