I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I’m the most off my game most often.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.