The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.