Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.