Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

I think we can't feed the amount of people that are on this planet the way we are doing it.

I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

We can never cease to be ourselves.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!