But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.