When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.