To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.