I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.