“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

“Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.”

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough”

“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words ― We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years ― The world being just what it is, moving and passing through, actually alright in the long view and nothing to complain about.”

“...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.”

“It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.”