Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.

Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.

It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.