I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

The feeling of happiness can never be activated in your life without you loving yourself unconditionally.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote.

If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.