When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.