You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.