Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.