You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.