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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It’s a paradox that’s at the heart of any kind of storytelling.