Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

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.

The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.