With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.
Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.
. . . our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.