Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.