In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Through every turn in life, through every little twist of fate, there is an opportunity to take a step back, find and reinvent yourself, and come back a bigger, stronger, better you.

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.