Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.

Composition is selective improvisation.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.