Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.