Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

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.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.