By her shining and her power he knew her.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.