“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.”

“Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

“There is a great Man living in this country — a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.”

“86. He that lives well is learned enough.”

“Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.”

“Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”

“He had never learned to live without delight. And he would have to learn to, just as, in a Prohibition country, he supposed he would have to learn to live without sherry. Theoretically he knew that life is possible, maybe even pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.”

“A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.”

“You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.”

“Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.”