Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.