By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.