Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.