As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.