Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.