“Be aware that, Great distances sometimes separate dreamland from reality. ”

“Leadership. I separate myself from the pack at such a great distance that it may be said that I’m a leader—a leader of one with followers of none.”

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”

“Which do you think is greater,” he asked, “the moral distance that separates us from the most monstrous of Nazis or that which separates us from God?”

“Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.”

“It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.”