When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.