We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.