Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Do not be afraid to cast yourselves into the arms of God; whatever he asks of you, he will repay a hundredfold.