An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.