I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.