The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.