“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”

“Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.”

“There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn't here now. There is nothing here now - nothing that matters - that wasn't back then. What matters. Are you a good person? Do you have any love in your heart? What would you do in a given circumstance? It all comes down to something like that.”