A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Those who love you, you are living in their love. Those who hate you, them, you have to love.

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.