Well, this I know: our best years are when we're working hardest and going right ahead when we can hardly see our way out. - Willa Cather

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.