“Whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.”

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.

When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions.

I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The simplest questions are the most profound.

I’ve never had a stylist, and I’ve always chosen my own clothes.

I don’t need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that’s what I’ve chosen to do.

But here’s an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is.

I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don’t care how.

Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.