God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

All fires burn out at last.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.