Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

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.

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.

Whatever you do, do with love to be the success and to find the joy.

Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.

Obviously I'm very confident, not only on the golf course, when I race. I've always backed myself. I'm a very confident sort of person.