People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

a king can only work with his best tools.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.