The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
The present necessarily betrays the past.
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.
Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
The world needs an enema.
Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.
In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.
A crisis unmasks everyone.
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
Necessity makes heroes of us all.
No use saying necessity is making a mistake.