If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

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.

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

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.