There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

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.

Change can only stop, if THINKING stops.

You are looking at the world from your window, that’s good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.