We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

We don't plan funerals till the body is dead.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?