Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

Back when I was in elementary school, I didnt have many friends.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.

No one thinks in your mind except you.

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.