Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.