In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's kno…

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.