“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
“...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...”
“Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man any more and they are waiting for him to die. But he don't want to die. He wants to keep on living even though he's so old and there's nothing to be happy about any more.”
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ”
“Mine is a misery which nothing can do away.”
“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”