[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

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

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.