“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.”

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

“you've been so kind and generous
I don't know how you keep on giving
for your kindness I'm in debt to you
for your selflessness, my admiration
and for everything you've done
you know I'm bound…
I'm bound to thank you for it”

“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

“It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.”

“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”

“The most troubling feeling in the world is to be aware of how much you know. Yet, you don't know how to apply that knowledge into action.”

“When you know how, any time, to get to the place where it's all sort of funny, you've mastered GTD.”

“You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.”