It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth. — E.M. Forster

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Then make my boy think like us. Make him realize that by the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.