It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.

I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.