Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint.

The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.

Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.

The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]