Sherry, the civilized drink.

Writing is the supreme solace.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.