Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.