How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

You don’t go to church to find God

When you live as a fountain of abundant love, instead of an empty well waiting to be filled by a lover, you will attract your SoulMate.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

Familiarity breeds consent.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.