Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

The self is every person's true enemy.

In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.

Live and die your own way, unnoticed.

I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

life is full when you know where you are and where you are going.

She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.

Do what is right, and do it now.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

Never apologize for your cooking.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.