One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.

The problem with death is absence