Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.