for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.

the most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

When my wife was asked "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered "For richer."

Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.

No one knows what to do with you, girlie.