He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.