Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

There is no perfection only life

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)