Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.