The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.