Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

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.

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.

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!

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

I don’t own anything, but I have everything.

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.

To those who say there is no God, you must seek to find Him. Deut. 4:29.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.

If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.