It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

All birth is unwilling.

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

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

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