Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

Our greatest need is God’s grace.

Why try to have pigs flyWhen ducks already can

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.