It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
Family. A snug kind of word.
Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.
I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.