Heaven's my destination.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.