I believe in the compelling power of love.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they’re there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

I just think things should work properly.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.