Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.