What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world