Cyril Jonas

“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.”
― Catherine Drinker Bowen

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
― Tehyi Hsieh

“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K