Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.