When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.