For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Stop making excuses and start doing what makes you profoundly happy!

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.