We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Education

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Fathers and Sons

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Giving

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Money

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Pessimism

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

Prediction

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Teams and Teamwork

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Writers and Writing

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.