Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.