1. “Every creature is born with a potential store of violence.”
2. “If you threw a stone into a gutter, it would only spurt filth in your face.”
3. “The unbeaten brat will remain unlearned.”
4. “No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.”
5. “It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.”
6. “Life is about making right things and going on.”
7. “Past is gone, present is going and tomorrow is a day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this?”
8. “Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words.”
9. “Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.”
10. “You become a writer by writing. It is a yoga.”
11. “We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.”
12. “Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances?”
13. “A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.”
14. “How can two living entities possessing intelligence ad judgement ever be tied together for a lifetime?”
15. “Words have a knack of breeding more words, whereas laughter, a deafening, roaring laughter, has the knack of swallowing everything up.”
