I am mentally bifocal.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.