What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?