The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached don't adjust the goals...
The object of the superior man is truth.
We should feel sorrow but not sink under its oppression.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough...
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere...
