There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.