The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.