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

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

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

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.

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!

If you want to know a man, dig in his firepit...Basically, it meant that you could judge a lot about a man's life by what he thew away - or by what he was willing to burn in order to stay warm.

the people are the biggesthorror show on earth, have been forcenturies.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.