Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.