"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."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

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

"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."

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

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good."

"Those who don't like thinking should at least rearrange their prejudices from time to time."

"Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning."