"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."

"Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships."

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."

"There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity."

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."