“Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.”

“One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.”

“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”

“Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?”

“One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat”

“When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.”