Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

You can only build yourself effectively in the area of your calling

Her veins flowed with liquid poetry. I stole the words from her mouth with my kisses.

All women speak two languages:
the language of men
and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
the language of queens.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to hit back

You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.