Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, I.E., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.