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

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

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

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.