We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

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

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

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.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.