But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.

One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Being upbeat is the key to life.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.