All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.