You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

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.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.