"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

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"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

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"Doubt is the father of invention."

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"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."

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"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."

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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."

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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

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"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."

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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."

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"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

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"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."

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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."

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"He who is brave is free."

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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

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"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."

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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."

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