It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

What you are is a question only you can answer.