Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do, " he says, "and I'll do it.

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.