Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.