There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

If most people around a person don’t either neglect him often or insult him at times to treat him bad for the nice things that he has done or said, then he is most likely to be not good to be a friend.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.