That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.