"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"I'm a bit of a romantic."

"It is a unyielding truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."

"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."