One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

To think is to say 'no.'

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Love and take care of yourself because you are your best friend, and you have to live with yourself rest of the life.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...

Originality is the death of mediocrity.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

I never wanted to be a playwright.