I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.
I am mentally bifocal.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
That is good which doth good.
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.
I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.