"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."

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

"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."

"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."

"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."

"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."