Effective action is always unjust.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.