"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"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."

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

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

"We are n'er like angels till our passion dies."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth."

"England and America are two countries seperated by the same language."

"Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action."

"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."

"All governmental intervention has as its object a forcible altering of what people would do were they unrestrained."