All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.