No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.