Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Every fear is fear of death.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.

Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.