What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.