The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

When the individual feels, the community reels.