Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.