Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.