Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

You’ve stopped crying. I’m glad. I don’t want you to cry anymore.

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.