I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

The patient must minister to himself