Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

She’s over the top rebellious, but damn her heart overflowing with insane love.She shakes thing up.Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fitsin nobody’s pretty perfect box.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed, And stands there like a window open wideInto a hushed and brightly lit abodeWhere something dreadful has occurred inside.

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.