Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom.

When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were born to do.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.