Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.