At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.