Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

It was always once springtime in my heart.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

If you will have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts.

This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

I got more money than I can spend now.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

I got the swag and it's pumping out my ovaries

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.