“It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.”

“When all one person do is complain, people don't want to talk or listen to them.”

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”

“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.”

“There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about.”

“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”