Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything related to his feelings for you

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are