The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.