I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.
To put failure behind you, face up to it.
We cannot get grace from gadgets.
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
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