Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

You see, people read to be amused, to pass the time, I never read to be instructed; I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic. I'm always looking for the author who can take me out of myself.

Naktis kybojo virš žemės, aštri kaip durklas, girta kaip pamišėlė.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!