If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.