The Process Of Maturing Is An Art

The Overwhelming Majority Of People Who Are Engaged In The Processes Of Thought And Expression Are Democrats Because The Essence Of Thought Is Exploration And Diversity And Change. It's Impossible To Have Vision In Art Or Government Without Risk, Or The Boldness And Courage Which Produce Risk. And This - In Spite Of What They Call Modern Republicanism - Is The Antithesis Of True Republican Thinking.

There Is Nothing Harder To Come By Than Detachment And Solitude; And Nothing More Important.

In Our Long And Obsessive Passion For Youth, We Have - More Than Any Other Modern Society - Avoided Direct Approach To Age And To Dying By Denying Them In Word, In Fact, And - Above All - In Worth.

Until We Know What Motivates The Hearts And Minds Of Men We Can Understand Nothing Outside Ourselves, Nor Will We Ever Reach Fulfillment As That Greatest Miracle Of All, The Human Being.

It Is A Marvellous Thing To Be Physically A Woman If Only To Know The Marvels Of A Man.