Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for