"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line."

"Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence."

"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."

"If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage"

"Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good."

"Try to relax and enjoy the crisis."

"Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing."

"I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."

"What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry?"

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer"

"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power."

"Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules"

"A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?"

"Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about"

"There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco"

"Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?"

"With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations"

"It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me."

"I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?"

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target."

"My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."

"Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest"

"The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself"

"Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction."

"When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference"

"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."

"The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library"

"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most"

"I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must be from you."