The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

One faces the future with one's past.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.