- "What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
- "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
- "The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."
- "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
- "Only a fool expects to be happy all the time."
- "May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."
- "If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
- "I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me."
- "Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
- "Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
- "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
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