“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
“By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed."Alexis Alexandrovich”
“Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?”
“Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.”
“The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.”
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”