When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

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 always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.