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

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.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

There are never enough 'I love you's.

Feel the emotions in my work not the technicality.

Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well.

Not Matter How Many times you read/Acknowledge Something, You will Always Discover Something New.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.