We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

I love who I am.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

[Chinese] have no respect for our President - which I can understand that - they have no respect for [Barack] Obama, they have no respect for our country, and they're getting away with murder.

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.

I really took the lead on putting together the real estate fund-to-funds. Real estate was always interesting to me.

Never doubt what comes from the heart, your feelings know you better than anything else.

What we have to be is what we are.

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can't explain.

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.