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

"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."

"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic."

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

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."

"JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service."

"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."

"Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot."