I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.