“So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....”

“We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.”

“Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.”

“When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.”

“I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some people are good and decent and it would be unkind to upset them simply...”

“If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.”

“Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what youre going to say ...”

“When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.”