How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

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.

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

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.

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

You are that angel of paradise.You are that flower of heaven.This universe was longing for you, with endless love for infinite time.

I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

It is when the heavenly fire has departed and the soul is cool again that we discover the real quality of our will.

In every mess I find a friend In every port a wife.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.