Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Mediocrity is always in a rush

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

I think people want to feel stuff right now.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I don’t count life as life without love

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake.