It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.