The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

I have faith in the judicial system.

Remind yourself that problems come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.