death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.