The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

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.

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

There is always space in my life for a unicorn.(i.e. fantasy)

Travel on your define path.

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.