I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.