"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Badness is only spoiled goodness."

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what seperates us from the animals. Except the weasels."

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."

"Happiness lies, first of all, in health."

"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."

"I am never afraid of what I know."

"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."