What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

Once you allow anyone to terrorize you, you will be terrorized all your life. Terror corrupts. Pretty soon you'll be terrorizing others. ... Life doesn't mean anything if you can't rid yourself of fear.

No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.