The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

For a moment nothing happened. Then after a second or so nothing continued to happen.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something, and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

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