Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

I do like the world quite a lot.

I stumble. I balance. I keep walking. Because I know that at the end of my journey is my dream destination.

But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?