Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

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 greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love

Life is for a specific mission.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought