Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives.

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

Illusion is the mantle of the Real

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.