What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Men and women often judge what they don't really know.

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.