[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.