When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.

They serve God well Who serve his creatures.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Find optimism in the inevitable.