"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."

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

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"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."

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground."

"Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them."

"It takes 15,000 nuts to hold a car together, but only one to spread it all over the highway."

"The beginning is always today."

"Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel"

"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so."