A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

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.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Love is sacred state of mind, body and soul.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

Health is worth more than learning.