Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

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.

Raise boys and girls the same way.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.