A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

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.

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility.

Where there's a will there's a way.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.

Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.