Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness… As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you're God's frozen people.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.