There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Courage is a kind of salvation.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.