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.

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!

The thin line between life and death is still under construction.

To remember a man’s name is to give him eternal life

Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.