"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.