1. “The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”
2. “Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
3. “Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan an die by plan.”
4. “All excellence is equally difficult.”
5. “Leadership is for those who love he public goo and are endowed and trained to administer it.”
6. “Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its on value.”
7. “Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.”
8. “Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.”
9. “Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
10. “The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.”
11. “It is only in appearance that time is a river. it is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
12. “Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.”
13. “Art is not only the desire to tell ones secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.”
14. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
15. “When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
16. “Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
17. “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
18. “Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”
19. “There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”
20. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
21. “I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.”
22. “A purpose is eternal condition of success.”
23. “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.”
24. “It is very necessary to have marker of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
25. “The best thing about animals is they don’t talk much.”
26. “An incinerator is a writer’s best friend.”
27. “Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.”
28. “Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.”
29. “The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.”
30. “Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.”
