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

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

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

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.