It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.