In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.