"We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate."

"Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit."

"Man is a problem-creating animal."

"Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them."

"When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up."

"It is better to do something you like than to think about what you don't like."

"To hate everything is to be wounded by everything."

"Higher education-I wonder how much longer the deception can go on."

"A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value."

"Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors."

"No explanation is ever as good as not having one."

"A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid."

"I believe in the brief eternity of the rose."

"Love is the body's warmth; sex, its heat."

"Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds."

"Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves."

"Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever."

"The landscape looks different from every blade of grass."

"Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere."

"To know your soul is your own, that's what counts."

"If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie."

"Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be."

"Success in politics is the art of the timely lie."

"Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am."

"I had no goals, no ambitions. That left me free to wander and amuse myself."

"What is is plenty, but more is never enough."

"A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book."

"On the blank page all things are possible."

"The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?"

"There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking."

"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."

"Some stories end in despair, some begin there."

"The skies give no warning when they fall."

"What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that."

"Art is good, but happiness is better."

"A long leash is not freedom."

"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."

"A heart that can break is better than no heart at all."

"Eternity: the length of a life."

"Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive."

"Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it."

"What is love after but trusting in the unknown."

"Nothing is less like life than our idea of it."

"We are the mountains we must cross."

"Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life."

"I'd trade a hundred pretty faces for one person who's easy to talk to."

"A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair."

"The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high."

"What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think."

"Don't stare out the window, run through the fields."