I like your eyes when you get mad, " I said. "They glow like embers.

Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany.

Just keeping being you. Don't worry what people think. Being you is cool, okay?

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.