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

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

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

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

All excellence is equally difficult.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.