When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.