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“People are not driven by past causes but move toward goals that they themselves set”
          

I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

“everything else is just desire and projection
          of all our wants needs and fantasies”
          

“Our children do not know our past. History is no longer a topic that excites their interest.”
          

“—how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints— all that glorious, temporary stuff.”

No single thing abides, but all things flow.

No one could do as desired. 

It’s easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one’s character. 

Regaining a new life is something that had nothing to with time or place. 

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.