I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

There is a girl.I named her love.She has a father. His name is desire.Her mother has a name, but not always the same. We call her destiny.Love calls her mommy.

The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.

The library was the best place in the world.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

Be larger than your task.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.