"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"

"True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible."

"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."

"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."

"I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."