The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Passion helps to prove your inner worth.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

I'd make a bad preacher.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.