"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."

"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

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

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

"Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."

"He conquers who endures."

"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."