He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like, ' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.

We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.

The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us