"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."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"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."

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

"Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them."

"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash."

"He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance"

"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it."

"Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea."

"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."