We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.